Job Title: Principal Process Safety Engineer

Location: Barrow-in-Furness – we offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: £47,241 + depending on experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Completing DSEAR risk assessments and compliance activities
• Mentoring and developing junior engineers
• Reviewing and producing explosion safety strategies
• Peer reviewing work
• Risk Analysis
• Developing and producing processes and policy documentation for the site

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Experience of working in an explosion safety engineering environment and applying various methods of hazard analysis
• DSEAR risk assessment production including hazard identification and analysis (preferably from a high hazard industry)
• A thorough understanding of Hazardous Area Classification (HAC) and Proven track record in implementing business processes to achieve strategic objectives

Desirable:

• Degree qualified in a STEM discipline
• COMAH – Control of Major Accident Hazards (Safety Case support) experience
• Site Asset Protection experience & Fire Safety Engineering experience

Benefits

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Safety & Environmental team

This is an exciting opportunity to join an established team tasked which offers exposure to the wider strategic initiative. You will be working with six people from principals to apprentices, liaising with operational managers, heads of departments as well as the Health & Safety teams. This role offers exposure to the Wider Control Damage Hazards team whilst individually being given the opportunity for professional growth within the function. We offer relocation support packages across all Submarines roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 5th January 2026

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Due to the festive season, there may be a delay in the processing of your application. Your application is important to us, and we will respond as soon as possible. Thank you for your understanding.

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Right across infrastructure, theres a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage youre at in your career, with us youll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in afriendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

Where will you be working?
At M Group Energy, were enabling the energy essential to support our lives.
We provide an end-to-end service, delivering solutions in electricity transmission, distribution, renewable energy, EV, metering and home decarbonisation.
This role will be within ourMetering team, youll join the leading provider of metering services in the UK energy retail sector, we provide efficient and flexible services for gas, electricity and water meters.
Want to come and be a part of it?

What will you be doing?
As a Smart Metering Engineer, you’ll be exchanging traditional meters for smart, along with responding to emergency and maintenance appointments on behalf ofE.ON NEXT, ensuring customers Smart Meters are working correctly. Our smart metering parternship with E.ON NEXT is in its twelfth year, built on continuous high performance, resulting in multiple contract extensions

Customer service is our top priority. You’ll make sure that all jobs are completed on time and our customers are explained the benefits and safe usage of their new smart meter. Do you enjoy working on your own,chatting to customers and meeting new people?

As part of your day, you’ll be completing the installation and ensuring the ongoing maintenance of smart meters in our customers homes. You will be doing around 5 jobs per day. Do you want to make some extra money? There’s an uncapped bonus for any extra jobs you complete too.
You’ll be travelling around your area using your tablet to see your jobs for the day. Like to plan ahead? You will have access to your schedule up to 2 weeks in advance.

You’ll also be provided with continuous training to maintain and develop your skills. Do you want to know a fun fact? 83% of our field management team have been internally promoted up from an Engineer. Are you looking for longevity in your career? You can have it with M Group Energy.
You’ll have health and safety at the heart of everything you do! Do you want extra training to make sure your knowledge is up to scratch? Your onboarding journey will make sure you are prepped and ready to be an ambassador for health and safety!
Worried the role could be lonely? You’ll be on weekly meetings, catch ups and our Field Managers are always there to come out and offer a helping hand or assistance. No day is the same, and you’ll be given endless opportunities to shine.

What youll bring

• Valid UK driving licence
• You must have held your licence for 1 year and have less that 6 points.
• Do you have a CCN1 / CMA1 / CMA3 all with MET1, or hold an NVQ Level 2 in Smart Metering Dual Fuel?Are you experiences installing gas and electric smart meters?
• Have you gotprevious MOCOPA experience to a multi rate level?

If you have the below qualifications and skills, great, but you dont need them to apply;

• Bonus qualifications such as REGT1 (Medium Pressure) and 3 phase
• Ideally have been registered on the EUSR portal

Whats in it for you?
We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include;

• Matched or contributory pension scheme
• Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
• Employee assistance programme
• My Rewards portal, access to 1000s of retail discounts
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
• Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
• Reward and recognition scheme

In addition, this role offers;

• £1000 Safety Bonus per year, paid to you at 6-month intervals
• You could receive £1000 Attendance Bonus per year, paid at 6-month intervals
• Company sick pay
• You’ll have access to an uncapped additional productivity related bonus
• Are you 3phase and/or Medium Pressure qualified? That’ll be £1000 added to your salary once authorised!
• Regular overtime paid is available to you at time and a half and double time on Sundays
• Looking for progression? 87% of our field managers have been promoted from DF engineers
• Company van/vehicle and fuel card for business use
• Recommend a friend get rewarded for introducing people to us!
• Standby / Overtime / Call out
• 22 days plus bank holiday, rising to 25 days with service

About us
We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We are one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.
Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.

• Wereresponsibleand go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
• Wereopenand seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
• Weretogetherand as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
• Wereambitiousand embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life

Whether youre a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.
Its an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.

Please note:Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.
For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rdparty background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.

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